Life Skills Institute Announces 7 Tips for The Patient’s Role in Healing in The Affordable Care Act

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The Affordable Care Act appears to be one of the deciding factors for many voters in the upcoming presidential election. Life Skills Institute feels a significant issue is being overlooked—the patient’s role in healing, which can lower medical expenses and make doctors’ treatments more effective. Marc Lerner, president of Life Skills Institute, presents 7 tips for patients to actively participate in healing.

Marc Lerner

"The quality of life in a healing process does not depend on the health of your body; it depends on your focus."

Ann Arbor, MI (PRWEB)September 16, 2012

As the country continues to debate The Affordable Care Act, Life Skills Institute feels that the overlooked issue of patient participation needs to be an important part of the success of the program.

Life Skills Institute has been working for over 30 years with people in a health crisis. The Institute has released a 7-step report on how the patient can play an active role in The Affordable Care Act. When President Obama announced The Affordable Care Act, he said that this would require personal responsibility for each patient. Marc Lerner, the president of Life Skills Institute, said; “When doctors and patients work as partners, inner and outer resources become more effective in the healing process and lower medical expenses.”

The Affordable Care Act has focused on what the doctors would do in the healing process. Life Skills Institute believes that there are significant things a patient needs to do to make the doctor’s treatment more effective. Marc Lerner added; “The attitude a patient walks into the doctor’s office with determines the effectiveness of the doctor’s treatment. Unfortunately, most people do not have a way to control their attitude.” Controlling their attitude is a practical way for a patient to actively participate in the healing process.

The Institute teaches 7 steps to empower patient participation.

Controlling one’s self-image to consciously interpret what is happening

Controlling the way one thinks and avoiding limiting thoughts

Trusting the Wisdom of the Body, the home of powerful inner resources

Approaching the healing process with the right attitude that supports you in healing

Developing conscious relations with your family and friends using that inner wisdom

Completing unfinished business using your newly developed self-image

Learning how to consciously re-program your sub-conscious mind so the needed life skills are available without having to think about them.

In 2010, the United States spent $2.6 trillion on medical expenses or almost $8700 per person. If empowering patients could save 1%, the US could save $160 billion annually. The US has a high recidivism rate, which means that patients return to the hospital too often. If we empowered patient participation, patients would not have to fall into old habits that often place them back into the hospital. Empowering patient participation would also prepare them for their next step, which could be getting a job or retiring. Preparing the patient to connect to inner resources puts them in control of their life so they are not victims.